Kiran Leonard, Lazarus Clamp, Wandering Summer

Kiran Leonard is quite simply once of the finest artists to emerge over the last decade or so since the astonishing Bowler Hat Soup. Comparisons with Richard Dawson and Jim O’Rourke highlight the freeform, avant-rock and experimental approach that Leonard brings to his music, and the sense of not quite knowing what will happen next. His latest album is “Real Home” is one of the finest albums of 2024,  described by Leonard himself as a concise record – “a lean 40 minutes and there’s choruses and everything”  and by others; “Real Home has all the intensity and immediacy of a gospel standard, with Leonard’s impulsive, deeply felt delivery and free timing recalling Jeff Buckley or Nina Simone” [Hard of hearing magazine]. “Spiky and literate and humane…it navigates some extraordinarily varied terrain it never strays too far from its theme or from its melodic musical core.” This Leeds show will be a rare solo set as part of Let’s go baboon’s 20^th anniversary show.

 

Lazarus Clamp have been making some sort of music since 1994, formed in Leicester, alongside contemporaries Prolapse and MJ Hibbett & the Validators. Their seventh LP, “How I Quit Being” is due for release in 2024. This is a very rare show to celebrate their new LP and 30 years of being. Over those years, Lazarus Clamp have deftly forged a path between the post-rock mastery of Codeine, Slint and Shellac, and the melodic beauty of Go-Betweens, Yo La Tengo and the Mekons. Described accurately by Drowned In Sound as one of the “undiscovered roughcut gems of British independent music” they go largely under the radar, quietly going about their business of, very slowly, delivering amazing music.

 

Wandering Summer are a noisepop indiepunk band from LS6 in Leeds. Hailing from the underbelly of the tag stained, take away rich streets of fun central in Leeds, UK. Wandering Summer fit somewhere between the scrawled urban terraces and their far out sunny green dreams. Wandering Summer are Influenced by the indie pop scenes of the USA and the Bay Area alt-pop movement, the band draws inspiration from revered talents like Sonic Youth, Flying Nun Records, Slumberland Records, Glaswegian indiepop and a myriad of feedback-drenched noise pop bands from previous decades.